By Fatima Adib in ToloNews online, July 29, 2023 at 7:46 PMActing Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, heading a delegation, left Kabul for Qatar on Saturday afternoon to meet with US officials on a range of issues, said MoFA deputy spokesman Hafiz Zia Ahmad Takal. Takal said on Twitter that Muttaqi will discuss ending sanctions and blacklists, releasing Afghanistan’s bank reserves, and stopping violations of Afghanistan’s airspace. Wahid Faqiri, a political analyst, said that the…
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By Mujeeb Rahman Awrang Stanikzai in TOLOnews, July 27, 2023 at 5:30 PMThe spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted that a delegation of the Islamic Emirate led by acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi is scheduled to travel to Doha at the end of this month to meet with American officials. Abdul Qahar Balkhi tweeted that in the meeting, ending sanctions and blacklists, releasing Afghanistan’s bank reserves, and stopping violations of Afghanistan’s airspace…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama online, July 27, 2023If the Taliban intends to seek international recognition, in that case, they need to “start directly with the actions and the policies they choose to undertake in Afghanistan,” said Vedant Patel, the deputy spokesperson for the US Department of State. During a press conference in Washington, DC, Patel said that the US is “going to be watching very closely and will continue to take appropriate actions as…
by Mitra Majeedy in ToloNews, July 28, 2023 at 9:51 PMTwo days before the Doha meeting, US special envoy Thomas West and US special envoy for Afghan women, girls and human rights, Rina Amiri, in Astana met with the representatives of five Central Asian countries — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan — and discussed Afghanistan. Inclusive governance and women’s rights were discussed by the participants of the meeting. “Many agreed that inclusive governance &…
By Bibi Amina Hakimi in TOLOnews, July 24, 2023 at 8:59 PMThe Food and Agriculture Organization reported that “severe and widespread drought, in addition to an extremely harsh winter, have impacted farmers…” The FAO, referring to Afghanistan, said “with 80 percent of families dependent on agriculture for their food and income, humanitarian livelihood support is critical.” In 2022, the FAO said in a report, “every USD $1 spent to protect rural livelihoods saved around USD…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, July 24, 2023Former President Hamid Karzai and Raffaella Lodice, the EU envoy in Afghanistan, met to discuss the critical issue of education in Afghanistan, particularly for women and girls. Karzai pleaded with the EU diplomat to advance education in the country. Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, they have imposed several suppressive policies and practices by which girls and women are barred from attending schools beyond sixth…
By Fatima Adib in TOLOnews, July 24, 2023 at 8:28 PMIslamic Emirate’s Qatar-based Political Office once again asked the United Nations Security Council to lift the travel ban on current government officials. Suhail Shaheen said to TOLOnews that the interaction of the Islamic Emirate with the international community is a necessity, and the United Nations should lift the travel ban on the current government officials for better interaction. “Solving some issues in a peaceful way…
report on Nepalnews.com, July 24, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Yuan Jiajun held a virtual meeting on Sunday afternoon. PM Dahal, who is currently in Italy, held virtual dialogue with leader Yuan, who is currently in Nepal, according to PM Dahal’s Secretariat. PM Dahal left here for Italy on Saturday night to attend the United Nations Food Systems Summit +2…
By Mujeeb Rahman Awrang Stanikzai in TOLOnews’, July 23, 2023 at 9:06 PMThe Peace Research Institute Oslo said that the US had made a U-turn in its fundamental position regarding Afghanistan, from seeing the preservation of the democratic state and the political order that it had stood behind since 2001 as an absolute, to prioritizing its own “military disengagement.” The report said the images of the Islamic Emirate’s seizure of Kabul and the dramatic evacuations…
By Nazir Shinwari in TOLOnews’, July 23, 2023 at 7:23 PMPolitical Deputy Prime Minister Mawlawi Abdul Kabir said that the Islamic Emirate wants to have positive relations with the international community based on mutual respect, but it will never be ready to compromise on Islamic law. He made the remarks at a gathering at Kabul University. “Now the world has understood this reality, that these individuals are the heirs of Afghanistan and there is a…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press, July 22, 2023The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan has rejected Iran’s claim that Daesh leaders have moved to the country from Iraq, Syria and Libya. Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian told ISNA News Agency, “It is not a secret to anyone that the leaders of Daesh and the trained forces of Daesh have moved from Iraq, Syria, and parts of Libya to Afghanistan in recent months.…